Editorial Reviews This band specializes in the whisper, the waltz, and songs that are jazz in concept, but not in execution. Theirs is an exquisitely mournful music, numinous and sweet. We invite you to experience the beautiful desolation that is Tiger Saw. The antecedents for Tiger Saw's beguiling music: mid-to-late era Velvet Underground, Galaxie 500, Leonard Cohen. Present day practitioners in a similar tradition: Low, Red House Painters, Ida, Cowboy Junkies.
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About the Artist
Tiger Saw formed at the turn of the century in a hotel in Los Angeles, where Dylan Metrano wrote much of their self-produced winter 1999 album How To Be Timeless Tonight. He brought his creations back to his hometown of Newburyport, a seaside town 40 miles to the north of Boston. There the slow, quiet and decidedly non-rock sound of his band tended to frustrate its players, who came and went in the tradition of the loose-knit jazz combos of a generation or two ago. By 2000, a line-up had finally solidified. Tiger Saw has recently done scores for theatre and film, including one they play live to accompany the classic silent film Nosferatu.
Album Description
Tiger Saw play songs of innocence and experience. They whisper incantations to summon the tempestuous bedroom songs that are their metier. Blessed Are the Trials We Will Find is fraught with emotion, a recording both tense and intense--like a first kiss. Sometimes lush and majestic, at other times austere and introspective, Blessed's sound brings to mind some sort of dream lullaby or timeless prayer. But these are not cradlesongs, unless mixes of guitar, cello, viola, bass, drums, melodica, organ, and trumpet are standard accompaniment to a mother's coo. And they are not entreaties to some divine being…unless, of course, that divine being is you.